Mannino was released from prison just last July after serving more than a decade for a string of 1999 bank robberies in which he was dubbed the Seven-Second Bandit because he told tellers that the shoebox he was carrying contained "a bomb that would explode in seven seconds if his demands were not met" as previously reported by Michael Wilson for The New York Times.

In February the feds arrested Gary Fama for his alleged role with Mannino in the December bank heist.

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